Total, 2025 was 12 months, however like all years it had its ups and downs. I’ll say although, the adjustments to the weblog I applied this 12 months has led to a happier and a much less neurotic me (okay, perhaps nonetheless very neurotic) as a consequence of a extra informal posting schedule. Generally I nonetheless want I used to be doing all of the e-book tags, challenges, and weekly meme posts that I used to do, however then I remind myself that shifting to primarily critiques has allowed me extra time to truly learn. And everyone knows that TBR pile by no means will get smaller, solely grows.

However in fact, I’ll all the time find time for an end-of-year publish the place I look again on the final twelve months and do a roundup of my favourite reads! That is all the time one checklist I look ahead to doing, because it lets me see all of the studying I’ve completed prior to now 12 months and likewise relive the books that stood out essentially the most. As normal, I’m going to spotlight every style class and all of the titles in it that I liked.

Fantasy is all the time one in all my favourite genres to learn, and this 12 months delivered no scarcity of unforgettable tales from the epic and mythological to the paranormal and historic.

With the romantasy style having exploded in recognition in 2025, I believe it’s earned itself a model new class on my checklist this 12 months. As with all oversaturated market although, there have been loads of so-so entries, however these are those that stood out.

Science fiction as soon as once more underperformed for me this 12 months, and I can solely hope we’ll see a little bit of a style renaissance quickly. Till then, there’s nonetheless the Dungeon Crawler Carl sequence to fulfill my aliens and sci-fi enjoyable repair.

Horror continues to be one in all my most dependable genres, that includes various themes and tales that maintain issues fascinating. These books are a reminder of why I maintain coming again for extra.

I’ve been exploring extra mysteries and thrillers currently, although a lot of it tends to blur along with acquainted formulation. These are the books that managed to interrupt the mould.

My YA studying has dwindled to nearly nothing this 12 months, with solely three titles on my “learn” shelf. Nonetheless, one in all them made the best-of checklist, which is all the time my favourite type of shock.

This 12 months, I additionally began selecting up some nonfiction books purely for enjoyable, curiosity, and studying. Whereas I don’t often evaluation these, I’ve included these advisable titles for being significantly effectively researched and engagingly written.

And now, on to the Goodreads stats! First, I crushed my GR studying problem, which I all the time set at 100 books a 12 months. This additionally strains up completely with my present objective of averaging two critiques per week.

Final however not least, the beautiful Yr in Books collage! Comfortable new 12 months, everybody!

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